ELTL question

[amyc78]

I have a very specific, odd question. I recently bought ELTL Level 3(from someone on this board!) and I'm trying to make it a little more user-friendly and independent for my 4th grader. I have the Text and the Workbook. Since the text is written to the student, I am considering unbinding the Text and the Workbook and rebinding them with each Lesson's workbook pages immediately behind that lesson's instructions from the Text. (Hope that makes sense)…

 

This would make a HUGE book so I would probably divide it into 3 sections. And I'm also trying to decide if I want to use all the workbook pages or just the exercise pages and let him do the copy work in his commonplace book...

 

Any thoughts on this?

[Slache]

I would 3 hole punch them and put them in a binder so you can reuse them with your six year old and baby if you wanted.

[amyc78]

I would 3 hole punch them and put them in a binder so you can reuse them with your six year old and baby if you wanted.

Idk why but binders make me crazy. Something about a neatly bound spiral that is just so much easier to use...

[silver]

I don't have my kids do ELTL independently, but we have no issues with just having a bookmark in the text and another in their workbooks. But my preference is for books to have proper spines with the title on it so that I can pick the book from the shelf easily--so I would be hard pressed to decide that cutting the spine off a book to spiral bind it would improve things. 

 

As for the copywork, I'd only have your student write it from the text into a notebook if you do cut the binding off. I don't think the book lays flat well enough to copy out of it when it has the standard paperback binding.

[Holly]

I keep a post-it tab in their lesson book, and we use a 3 prong folder for their grammar exercises.  I've done the Level 2 books with DD, but my other DC do Levels 4 & 5 mostly on their own.  I have no idea what we'll do next year with Level 3.  

 

I'd be terrified to cut up a book.  I try my hardest to keep them in one piece so their siblings can use them in the future!   :lol:   

[boscopup]

I use post-it tabs in both books, but I'm working with each kid,so not using it independently (we just switched from CLE, which we were using independently, and that was part of our problem with getting LA done each day).

[Coco_Clark]

I bought ELTL 3 spiral bound and LOVE it. The fact that my 1 and 2 couldn't lay flat for copying drove me nuts. Highly recommend.